New pot from the same mould
Debutant
director, Arbaz Khan’s Dabang 2, a
sequel to the blockbuster hit of 2010, Dabang,
is more of a good business opportunity to its makers than just a film. Dabang 2 feeds on the success of its
predecessor, and heavily at that! It has almost become a rule to produce a
sequel to every successful film that is made in the Hindi film industry, be it
the Dhooms, the Housefuls or now the Dabangs.
But it is clear that magical films do not get made every day and on the top of
it, to reproduce the magic in the sequel without solid content is rather a
weird task.
Dabang 2 happens to be a caricature of Dabang in almost all ways. But this
replica falls short of recreating the magic its predecessor created. Having
said that, Dabang 2 is not particularly a bad film. Director Arbaz Khan and writer Dilip Shukla make
a decent entertainer with some witty and comic dialogues, wacky action
sequences and good performances.
What
keeps this film from being a good film is the simply the story which is
coherently similar to Dabang's except that
Chulbul now has a happy joint family and a pregnant wife. The clichéd and extra
ordinarily influential villain whose ego is periodically tickled by Chulbul and
then a chance for a big revenge is what Dabang had, and is naturally inherited by
its sequel’s script.
What’s
good about this sequel which none of the sequels in Bollywood have managed before
is that, its director maintains the image of its protagonist from the
predecessor rather than going overboard. Chulbul Pandey is as strong and
flamboyant as in Dabang without getting extra powers or qualities. I believe
the character is what the audience will cherish and connect to in Dabang 2. Arbaz Khan as a director
captures some really mature and touching interactions between Chulbul and his wife
(played by Sonakshi Sinha) and celebrates post marriage romance onscreen.
Screenplay
is very amateur and you literally see the film running in a cyclic order of
action-drama-romance-songs making the already weak script annoyingly
predictable. Action is stylised with an effective background score and good
editing, however, it seems overdone in parts. The entry action sequence is lengthy
and monotonous while the finale sequence is disappointing. Music is average and
the funniest part is that each song inherits from its coinciding song from Dabang in terms of singers, tune, setting
and the situation in the story. Dabang 2
is a new pot from the same mould!
Prakash
Raj plays the overpowered villain, he can never disappoint. But don’t expect a Singham level performance because he
surprisingly has a less screen time. Arbaz Khan and Vinod Khanna carry their
characters ahead with ease. Sonakshi Sinha cake walks through another role in
the shadow of a flamboyant hero played by a big star. Salman Khan as Robinhood Pandey
or this time the Kung Fu Pandey steals the show. You will find the same
Chulbul, a little fat though, delivering big faced one liners, smacking goons
with ease and going shirtless in the finale sequence. Salman Khan never
pretends to know to act, but pulls it off with sheer screen presence and his
real life dabang attitude reflected
on screen.
Dabang
2 is neither a magical film nor a trash! But it’s earning big buks for its
producer is inevitable just as the consequent production of a dozen more
Dabangs is!
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